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I was sitting in a Dr's waiting room yesterday and I could overhear a conversation with a mother and her primary school age son.
They were discussing what he'd asked "Santa" for Christmas.

In his list were Doom and the XXX box set, both classified as 15.

I saw the same thing when GTA Vice City (Rated 18) came out. A young child proudly carrying the gift his mother had bought him.


What's the bloody use of classifications if the parents don't take note of them.

Too right there.

I remember not being able to watch the Exorcist when it first came out on Video, because I wasn't 18 yet. But how many under 18s regularly watch it today?

[quote]so they can't complain if the kiddie has nightmares or turns into a psychopath.[/quote]

I can't see how classified films, watched throughout childhood, could endanger the adult conscience. Maybe extreme cruelty when young may have an affect, but not films (even if the films have extreme cruelty as content).

A agree with classifications though. Parents just seem to purchase whatever the kids asks for these days. Probably for a quiet life, rather than being responsible parents.

Sean Cunninghan was an American pornographher who was fed up with going to jail. He stopped making porn and went into horror and his first film Friday 13th created a whole genre of misogynistic films where sexually active teens were penetracted by phallic knives in a simple symbolism where the scream of pain became an orgasm and blood the semen.
Grotesque deformed psychotic males were the celibate mutilators of teenage "sluts."

Anyway all he did was get the latest porno script where a lot of students go to a deserted cabin in the woods and have sex and inserted into every scene, where the performers fuck, a maniac jumping out from no-where and stabbing everyone. He became a millionaire, making many other films of the same genre.

In George Orwell's 1984 allowed the proles to watch Video Nasties which drew there emotional resonse from violent imagery instead of sexual. Proles were not allowed to watch pornography.

Mike

Sam Slater wrote:

> I can't see how classified films, watched throughout childhood,
> could endanger the adult conscience.

There is no evidence yet published to support the theory. In fact a report from the Video Standards Council came to this conclusion.

Exactly. I was taught to believe that a lack of conscience was probably a chemical imbalance within the brain, or just certain areas of the brain that deal with that particular emotion, not working properly.

So, though rape/murder scenes aren't my cup of tea, I can't see them turning the children of today, into the psychopaths of tomorrow.

Have a look for Dr Guy Cumberbatch on <http://www.videostandards.org.uk.